different between industrious vs unremitting
industrious
English
Etymology
From Middle French industrieux, from Late Latin industriosus (“diligent, active, industrious”), from Latin industria (“diligence, industry”); see industry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?d?st?i.?s/
Adjective
industrious (comparative more industrious, superlative most industrious)
- Hard-working and persistent.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
- I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:industrious
Antonyms
- lazy
Derived terms
- industriousness
Related terms
- industrial
- industry
- industriousness
Translations
Further reading
- industrious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- industrious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- industrious at OneLook Dictionary Search
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unremitting
English
Etymology
1728, un- +? remitting, from remit, from Latin [Term?], in now rare sense of “diminish, abate”. Not from (non-existent) *unremit.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??n???m?t??/
- (US) IPA(key): /??n???m????/
- Rhymes: -?t??
Adjective
unremitting (comparative more unremitting, superlative most unremitting)
- incessant; never slackening
- 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
- We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.
- 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
Derived terms
- unremittingly
Translations
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